Stress - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

PublicationsHappy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending Authors:Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton Publication:Simon & Schuster, forthcoming Abstract If you think money can't buy happiness, you're not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

these three roles also comes with its own set of traps, a point Battilana stresses when talking to action-driven students: Among agitators: fragmented agitation—triggering multiple areas of outrage that can’t work together as a cohesive... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Sep 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s-1980s

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Christina Lubinski; Chemical

30 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

Many of us have been there: mired in rush-hour traffic, listening to music or news to take our minds off the grind, wishing we didn’t feel so stressed before we’ve even reached the office. A late-night conversation with a fellow... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

03 May 2024
Research & Ideas

How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact

in seed funding. In-person is especially important for innovation Roche stresses that the team’s findings pertain specifically to the influence of proximity on technology adoption in startup coworking environments. However, she adds that... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

28 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need

often caused by chronic stress in the workplace. Companies ultimately bear the cost of lost productivity through quiet quitting, as well as the expense of replacing miserable, burned-out employees who depart. With the costs of replacing... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson

December 2020 (Revised June 2021)
Case

France Télécom (A): A Challenging Restructuring

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and Ashley V. Whillans

These cases explore the impacts of industry shocks, resulting corporate actions that had a devastating impact on employees, and the legal conviction of corporate leaders for “institutional harassment."

This case series follows the evolution of France... View Details

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December 2013
Supplement

Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (B)

By: James K. Sebenius

This case picks up (from the end of the "A" case) the detailed story of the KGB's high-pressure negotiations with Harvard doctoral student Bruce Allyn to recruit him as a secret asset for the Soviet spy agency. The "A" case describes how, at the tense height of the... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Bargaining; Hard Bargaining; KGB; Espionage; Spying; War; National Security; Alliances; Ethics; Negotiation Tactics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Offer; Cambridge; Moscow; Soviet Union

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05 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

meanwhile, is known colloquially as "the stress hormone," because cortisol levels go up when people experience stress. An analysis of the post-math-test saliva samples, compared with the pre-math-test saliva, revealed something unexpected... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

around them. The circumstances of work have become more difficult. Their responses included: “Keeping morale and motivation up amongst employees while they are dealing with the stress of COVID-19 as well as parenting/schooling children... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

06 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

important issues. Values-centered Leadership Leading is high stress work. There is no way to avoid the constant challenges of being responsible for people, organizations, outcomes, and uncertainties in the environment. Leaders who move up... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

30 Apr 2024
Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

the individuals assigned to be “guards” became abusive towards the “prisoners,” causing the “prisoners” to experience acute stress and anxiety (Haney, Banks, & Zimbardo, 1973). Role-play research by Professor Scott Armstrong of the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

executives are: Empathic. They monitor employee stress and anxiety and try to prevent overload and burnout, especially in the "next normal" of the pandemic. Many people are coping with social and economic unrest and insecurity both inside... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology

07 Feb 2022
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Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

example). Participants contend that an outside-in perspective can infuse the creativity and curiosity that digital transformation requires. "Leaders must be empathic about the stress employees feel as they grapple with the complexity and... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

29 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

patent searches—a style of work that prior research has termed “pooled interdependence.” Choudhury stresses that the research results apply only to companies or units that employ this type of worker. “For the vast majority of such... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

02 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women

his co-researchers believe that it may have lessened the effects that their research revealed, as people tend to be more assertive or unyielding when real money is on the line. While gender was a key dimension in the study sample, Zlatev View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

16 Nov 2021
HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

employee departures. Company officials kept a careful count of departing workers and doled out bonuses to managers based on the number of workers in their groups that left. Managers and workers alike exhibit stress Many managers,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

victimized. We measure biological markers of stress and behavioral indices of cognitive control before and after treated participants watch a series of real, crime-related videos (while the control group watches non-crime-related videos).... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

exhaust themselves attending to a special needs child or ailing parent. Everyone frets over their physical and financial well-being. Who among us isn't anxious, stressed out, and off our game right now? From bolstering remote... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

parent company, a white soap, called "Lux Toilet Soap." J. Walter Thompson was hired to develop a marketing and advertising campaign stressing the glamour of the new product, with very successful results. 17 Lever's share of the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail

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